It's a film that challenges us to be bored, while refusing to be boring.

| Feb 7, 2019

Yet Stalker is a movie to be watched as many times as physically possible... It really is that astounding.

| Feb 7, 2019

There are no flying saucers in the great Russian director's haunting tale of a journey into the depths of a postapocalyptic landscape, but it offers visual splendor, as well as mysteries, portents and miracles.

| Feb 14, 2018

The film has a hypnotic pull, drawing the viewer deeper and deeper into its enigmatic adventure by crafting a world all its own.

| May 18, 2017

The pursuit of happiness takes on a meandering, philosophical and richly visual form in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2015

With this film, Tarkovsky re-entrusts to the medium a responsibility which in the West is upheld, if at all, only by documentaries (and by a rare maverick work like Pasolini's Salò): that of testifying, of showing.

| Aug 1, 2015

Tarkovsky realizes the allegorical tale with an overwhelming density of visual detail ...

| Dec 16, 2013

Seminal feature from Tarkovsky, the master of atmosphere and multi-functional allegory is truly affecting, as well as fodder for countless film studies curricula.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2007

A vast prose-poem on celluloid whose forms and ideas were to be borrowed by moviemakers like Lynch and Spielberg.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2007

Not an easy film, but almost certainly a great one.

| May 30, 2007

A tangled knot of memories, fears, fantasies, nightmares, paradoxical impulses, and a yearning for something that's simultaneously beyond our reach and yet intrinsic to every one of us.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 25, 2006

Tarkovsky conjures images like you've never seen before; and as a journey to the heart of darkness, it's a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's.

| Feb 9, 2006

Tarkovsky majestically creates through editing rather than special effects the unstable universe of the Zone, and amidst the grime and the destruction, summons up moments of pure magic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2005

Stalker, a somber futuristic fantasy from the Soviet Union, attempts to build an apocalyptic vision out of the most impoverished materials imaginable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 15, 2005